Way to Clean Bullets

[big uns]

I came across 2k 38 Caliber bullets at a pawn shop at a cheap price because they had been setting around collecting dust in an open container. Can these bullets be cleaned and delubed? I would like to shoot them rather than melt them down. Any thoughts on the subject?

[Dale53]

You can put them in a bucket of water and heat the water until the lube floats to the top. Cut the heat off and carefully pour the water off. The lube normally floats to the top and is easily skimmed off. That is if the lube is "normal". There are high temperature lubes that may not work well with this plan. Then carefully and gently pour the bullets onto a dry turkish towel and gently towel them dry. Re-lube and you are back in business.

I suggest that you NOT use your wife's favorite sauce pan for this procedure...

Good luck!

Dale53

[Poygan]

Onced upon a time I would buy commercial cast from a friend but I didn't like the hard wax lube they came with. I don't load large quantities at a time so I would use a shallow pan on a hot plate in the garage (probably wouldn't use this method in the kitchen) and melt the lube over a medium heat. Picked the boolits out with a needle nose plyers and would relube them with FWFL. They usually worked OK but not as good as casting them myself.

[zuke]

Cut th top off a 2 liter pop bottle, pour in bullet's till it's half full and then add gasoline to the 3/4 full point.

Let sit for a couple day's and the bullet's should all be lube free.

[Junior1942]

I found some bullets I cast and lubed maybe in 1975. The lube was dry and brittle. So I added some Lee Liquid Alox and tumble lubed them. The LLA combined with the old lube just fine, and the bullets also shot just fine.

[shooter575]

I found a box with a 1000 200 gr RNFP in 430 dia.I used a basket from a baby sized deep fryer. Dip em in boiling water and all clean in 5 minutes.Worked like a champ.

[big uns]

Thanks for the replies! I may have to try all 5 different ways. I was thinking that boiling them would work but wanted other options.

[NVcurmudgeon]

I found a box with a 1000 200 gr RNFP in 430 dia.I used a basket from a baby sized deep fryer. Dip em in boiling water and all clean in 5 minutes.Worked like a champ.

shooter, I see that your signature is a quote from Ambrose Bierce, an all-time great curmudgeon, so you may lean that way, too. But advocating deep-frying babies? That may be going a little too far!

[waksupi]

shooter, I see that your signature is a quote from Ambrose Bierce, an all-time great curmudgeon, so you may lean that way, too. But advocating deep-frying babies? That may be going a little too far!

Don't forget Jonathan Swift, and his suggestion on eating English babies! Nothing wrong with eating them, as long as they are small enough, that the bones are still soft.

[Lloyd Smale]

sorry but if theyd collected dust id be remelting them. I dont think a few thousand dirty bullets for free is worth a damaged barrel. Melt them and recast them.

[wills]

I have to agree with curmudgeon. Too much cholesterol in fried foods.

[Old Jim]

Hey guys. Get it right. those were Irish babies.

[wills]

Right you are, and how negligent of us not to have noticed earlier.

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